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stagnant water under 400x zoom

what's swimming around in it?
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Is she right?
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"He Dindu Nuffin!"

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Convicted Head of Harvard Chemistry department Charles Lieber Moves For New Trial to Rectify ‘Manifest Injustice’

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/2/9/Lieber-moves-for-retrial/

Attorneys for Harvard professor Charles M. Lieber filed a motion Monday for an acquittal or new trial, over a month after he was convicted in federal court on six felony counts.

Lieber was found guilty in a December trial of two counts of lying to federal officials about his involvement with the China-sponsored Thousand Talents Program. The renowned nanoscientist was also convicted of four tax-related offenses.

Calling their client’s conviction a “manifest injustice,” Lieber’s lawyers wrote in a memorandum that Lieber’s statements to investigators were “warped by the government.” They also reiterated a previous call to suppress statements the chemist made in a post-arrest FBI interview.

The government has until March 7 to register opposition to the defense’s request.

The Lieber trial resulted in the highest-profile conviction to date by the Department of Justice’s China Initiative, a controversial program launched under the Trump administration targeting those suspected of “trade secret theft” and “economic espionage.” The initiative has faced criticism for alleged prosecutorial misconduct and a disproportionate focus on individuals of Chinese heritage.

Prosecutors dropped a similarly high-profile case under the China Initiative against Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gang Chen on Jan. 20, less than a month after Lieber’s conviction. Chen faced some of the same felony charges as Lieber.

Lieber’s attorneys identified the charges against Chen as one example of “a string of hollow prosecutions” brought forward under the China Initiative, a program they criticized as “flawed.”
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climate change science is not settled and mostly misleading and cherry picked data.
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You can't experience the present materially

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You never actually experience the present in material terms because there is always at least a tiny delay between the brain receiving information and the information being displayed to you.

We experience a present though. Even though everything we experience is lagging behind the real world, or lagging behind the subconscious etc. there is still something that does not move from being present...
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Science + programming. Which is do you think the best? I know python and it's so good but i'm curious about other languages. There is julia, pascal, object pascal, fortran. What is your experience with the langauge you currently use?
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Why are eugenics and human experimentation seen as immoral? We would’ve cured many illnesses by now if we were allowed to do that.
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Consider two bodies at a near infinite distance in space. Due to gravity they will gradually accelerate towards each other. Due to this acceleration and the great distance separating them their speeds will eventually increase to surpass the speed of light.

CHECKMATE EINSTEIN.
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